How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories
Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.
"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" -- NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." -- Entertainment Weekly
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.
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I thought some stories were interesting that I wish they were longer and some boring. A lot of them had interesting concepts.
Lemme first preface this by saying I did not choose to read this on my own - it was for book club and boy-o, I have never felt dumber than when I was reading this. Holy cow it must be exhausting to be as smart as Jemisin is and having all these stories waiting to come out.
It’s hard to review a short story anthology - whether it was the short story format or just the content itself, it wasn’t really my cuppa. Some of the stories good, some too over my head, and some outright messy. I found myself wanting a bit more of a connection, or perhaps some sort of link, between the stories. I found the most poignant part in her introduction where she discussed underrepresentation & own voices in sci-fi.
Overall it was good, but I was definitely in over my head.
It’s hard to review a short story anthology - whether it was the short story format or just the content itself, it wasn’t really my cuppa. Some of the stories good, some too over my head, and some outright messy. I found myself wanting a bit more of a connection, or perhaps some sort of link, between the stories. I found the most poignant part in her introduction where she discussed underrepresentation & own voices in sci-fi.
Overall it was good, but I was definitely in over my head.
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